Strategies for Teachers

Children with ASD should never again play alone at recess or sit alone at lunch (unless they really want to)!

Children with autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders and English language learners often face more social challenges than their peers.This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to develop programs that promote social inclusion, such as

A feeding disorder is a sensory-motor disorder and should be treated accordingly. This involves analyzing the child's oral movement patterns as well as his ability to register and regulate sensory information.This book provides a structured oral movement and feeding program that will help children work through aversion to food textures, limited diet, and difficulty accepting food utensils. Parents, caretakers, and teachers are important participants in the child's treatment program.

This material introduces the concept of convenience to professionals who work with students with autism. It features easy-to-implement strategies that can be used in all types of educational settings and situations. This tool is broken down into five color-coded sections that are easy to locate and use: Learning Environments, Areas of Student Need, Transitions, Alphabetical Explanations of Terms and Resources and References. The easy-to-use material is a companion to Strategies at Hand: Quick Positive Behavior Support Strategies.

Mueller and Brewer tackle the critical issue of behavior in their latest practical resource for parents, teachers and other professionals. Using the same handy flip book format that made their earlier ASD resource such a welcomed tool, Strategies at Hand: Quick Positive Behavior Support Strategies contains a wide range of behavioral supports divided into Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Interventions, in keeping with the Response to Intervention (RTI) continuum.

“A survival manual for parents and professionals working with children with autism.” Ami Klin

Staying in the Game picks up where many social skills training programs leave off - with generalization. The book addresses this void by presenting a range of interventions aimed at promoting generalization of social skills by showing how to establish social situations that can be opportunities for generalization. The focus of Staying in the Game goes beyond just placing students in inclusion settings, to taking advantage of inclusion by facilitating the use of typical students to address generalization of social skills - one of the most profound challenges for individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities. With Staying in the Game, families and professionals who support a child with ASD have critical information that describes how to promote generalization of social skills to everyday experience.

Starting from the premise that no two individuals with ASD are the same. The authors provide a global perspective of how the core characteristics of ASD may appear separately and/or simultaneously, and how they may look in a variety of situations. Each characteristic is then paired with a brief explanation, followed by a series of bulleted interventions. Interventions include strategies and supports that help children on the spectrum who have difficulty with abstract concepts and thoughts, difficulty understanding and regulating their behavior, and much more.

School administrators: Do you understand your students with ASD? This can help!

School administrators play a key role in creating a mind-set of acceptance of learners with special needs and their families within their school district, region, or school. In many instances, a school administrator guides decisions regarding how teachers address behavioral challenges. This book provides school administrators with useful, practical suggestions and strategies that can increase student achievement, engagement, positive behavior, and social skills for high-functioning students on the spectrum; and increase positive interactions between families and school personnel.

Throughout this text, you'll discover 70 of the skills that most commonly cause difficulty for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and social-communication problems. The presentation of each skill consists of a reproducible skill handout, as well as activity sheets listing ways teachers and parents can demonstrate, practice, and reinforce the skill in the classroom and at home. A concluding chapter on promoting peer acceptance offers sensitivity training programs for both students of various age groups and school staff, making this a complete social skills training package for students of all ages.

Many parents are not sure of what to say and do to help their children improve their social interactions. Social Rules for Kids - The Top 100 Social Rules Kids Need to Succeed helps open the door of communication between parent and child by addressing 100 social rules for home, school, and the community. Using simple, easy-to-follow rules covering topics such as body language, manners, feelings and more, this book aims to make students' lives easier and more successful by outlining specific ways to interact with others on a daily basis. Foreword by Ann Gordon, PhD, BCET.

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This book uses scales as a way of explaining social and emotional concepts to individuals who have difficulty understanding such information but have a relative strength in understanding systems. The 5-point scales can be used to increase communication between the person on the autism spectrum and their support person. The result? It can increase self-management skills and, once learned, it can serve as an excelled self-advocacy tool. Foreword by Stephen Shore, EdD.